OT - Movie you HATE, from an actor/director you like?
January 25th, 2022 at 11:35 AM ^
Beverly Hills Ninja - How the hell do you make that trash with Farley and Chris Rock
Devils Rejects- Lets take 100% of the fun out of House of a 1000 corpses and make Natural Born Killers "family edition"
January 25th, 2022 at 1:11 PM ^
I made it about twenty minutes into Devil's Rejects before I decided that it was going to be one of those movies where everyone is stupid except for the psychopath family and I didn't want to watch a bunch of deranged wish fulfillment.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:42 AM ^
The Lady Killers. Can't believe that garbage came from the directors of Raising AZ, Big Lebowski,
January 25th, 2022 at 12:20 PM ^
My wife LOVES Tom Hanks, loves every movie he does or has been in.
Except that one.
Said she watched it once, and will never feel the need to watch it again.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:47 AM ^
Downsizing with Matt Damon. Damon has had some other duds, like that great wall movie, but holy smokes Downsizing just sucked. I was bored from start to finish. It wasn't funny enough to be a comedy or really emotional/adventurous enough to be any other genre in my opinion. I finished watching it and cursed the heavens for wasting two hours of my life.
January 25th, 2022 at 3:07 PM ^
Frustrating movie. I thought the concept had a lot of promise but it’s just a dreadful watch.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:51 AM ^
Family Plot by Hitchcock. Topaz sucked too.
January 25th, 2022 at 12:01 PM ^
Everything by M Night Shyamalan except Signs. I really enjoy Signs.
January 25th, 2022 at 12:03 PM ^
Casino. Four hours of terrible people screeching at each other with no payoff for enduring that at all.
January 25th, 2022 at 12:14 PM ^
So true.
”Just go act like the Goodfellas people for as long as we can film, story doesn’t matter!!”
January 25th, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
I have really gotten into Taylor Sheridans work on both TV and the movies but he did make one clunker. Those who wish me dead, terrible movie
January 25th, 2022 at 12:11 PM ^
This is an easy one for me.
Natural Born Killers.
Oliver Stone. Woody Harrelson. Robert Downey Jr.
Worst movie ever unless your goal is to be disturbed by an insane level of violence, even by modern movie standards.
January 25th, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
Totally agree. Such a promising group of talent (even a Rodney Dangerfield sighting) and the movie was just awful.
January 25th, 2022 at 12:12 PM ^
Stanley Kubrick is a genius but A Clockwork Orange is almost comically bad.
January 25th, 2022 at 1:44 PM ^
I wish I could neg you 1000 points for that comment. A Clockwork Orange is brilliant!
January 25th, 2022 at 5:30 PM ^
Yeah, I disagree with you on Clockwork Orange. It's a masterpiece. I love every Kubrick film but Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut. The former is an interminably dull slog and the latter...yeah, it does nothing for me.
January 25th, 2022 at 12:16 PM ^
Chris Carter
X-Files: I want to Believe
Love the X-Files. But not his best writing.
January 25th, 2022 at 12:20 PM ^
Barely Legal 3 - Jodi Roxx
January 25th, 2022 at 12:38 PM ^
But her work in Cum on Eileen was titillating
January 25th, 2022 at 12:46 PM ^
I find that in every director or actors body of work, some stinkers are inevitable. What I find interesting are the stinkers in a string of hits.
For example: Silent Movie in the middle of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles through Spaceballs run.
Or 1941 in Spielbergs's 70's and 80's body of work.
I always find those seeming one-offs interesting and always wonder if they're indicative of what will eventually lead to one's body of work becoming a little more uneven.
January 25th, 2022 at 1:26 PM ^
The Irishman with Pacino and DeNero was an abomination.
January 25th, 2022 at 1:28 PM ^
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Tim Burton. I really do not like how the Oompa Loompas were done in that film. So disappointing!
January 25th, 2022 at 1:37 PM ^
I've loved Annette Benning in the Kids are Alright, the Grifters and other movies, but really didn't like American Beauty. It's been along time since the one and only time I watched it but everything about it seemed exaggerated, overly stylized and obvious.
January 25th, 2022 at 2:15 PM ^
The years have not been kind to American Beauty. It kind of turned out to be a period piece about a period that was ending and it became irrelevant almost immediately. Stylistically, however, it is a highly influential movie. It also was the birth of the modern “anti-hero.” (Ozark, Breaking Bad and many others owe a debt of gratitude to Lester Burnham). But as a film it has not held up.
January 25th, 2022 at 2:21 PM ^
Threads like this always take me back to my college radio days. "Diiferent strokes for different folks!"
And I'd recommend "Summer of Soul" if you haven't seen it yet.
January 25th, 2022 at 2:28 PM ^
Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven. There was a lot of shouting about his ability as a director that I just didn't get, mostly about this movie and the Bridges of Madison County (the later was what I would have expected if he tried to direct like he was Meryl Street). I saw Unforgiven as an average, unremarkable, Western-revenge movie; it was a knock-off of his more interesting spaghetti western movies. However, it went from mediocre to offensive when his hubris caused him to think it was more than that. The attempts at humor about aging cowboys were obvious and unfunny. Worst of all, the scene before the corrupt Sheriff tortured Morgan Freeman's character to death was blasphemously intense for such a pedestrian movie. That scene conjured up some of the worst atrocities of American history, and it had no business doing so for such a bland story.
In my mind, Clint FINALLY lived up to the shouting only with Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima (mostly the later, but together the two are sublime.
January 25th, 2022 at 7:19 PM ^
I think Mystic River is easily, easily Eastwood’s best work as a director. Some of the shots in Mystic River are outrageously good.
You are absolutely correct though, Unforgiven sucked.
January 25th, 2022 at 7:31 PM ^
I feel the exact opposite. Mystic River was dreck. Sean Penn is insufferable.
January 26th, 2022 at 7:56 AM ^
He can be. I thought he was very good there, though.
January 25th, 2022 at 2:41 PM ^
And in a similar, but subtly different category: movies that tried to be great, but epically face-planted.
St. Elmo's Fire. The sound track was amazing! The subject matter was something that never, ever gets made into a movie: 20-somethings adjusting to their first year after college. There were so many possibilities to touch the angst and the growth of that moment. For one brief scene (going back to his fraternity to play touch football with his brothers, and what an oasis it was from all the other stuff he was facing), it touched the sublime. (And yeah, that scene was so close to home for me I cried to myself in the theater.)
The rest of the movie was typical Hollywood crap focused on who was dating whom, who wanted to be dating whom, who was sleeping with whom, who wanted to be sleeping with whom, who was faking about whom she was sleeping with...yada-yada-yada. They tried to touch the profound, but they used a sledge-hammer when a pair of tweezers and a microscope were wanted. I once re-watched the movie just so I could marvel at how terrible it was.
January 25th, 2022 at 2:48 PM ^
Sequels are often bad. Dating myself with this list...
Splash (love Tom Hanks in almost every movie he's made)
Godfather III (Might have actually been survivable if I & II hadn't been the best two movies ever)
Star Wars I & II (ruined the force, wasted an amazing villain)
Batman & Robin was really, really bad despite a strong cast
Batman vs Superman was also terrible
Rocky V
January 25th, 2022 at 2:49 PM ^
Mel Brooks - anything other than The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
His other movies aren't bad, but it's tough to match the brilliance of those three.
January 25th, 2022 at 3:06 PM ^
Space Balls had its moments, but yeah, you can see from Blazing Saddles to Young Frankenstein to Space Balls how the jokes got less funny as the subject matter became less risky (racism to sex to Star Wars parody). Interestingly, the best gag in Space Balls was the "comb the desert" scene, and it touched on a racist trope.
January 25th, 2022 at 3:45 PM ^
History of the World, Part I?
January 26th, 2022 at 3:04 AM ^
These Mel Brooks movies were funny but they would never make into the theaters in Today's world.
January 25th, 2022 at 3:03 PM ^
I’m not sure if it has an actor that I generally like but I absolutely loathe Uncut Gems. I have zero idea why people raved about that movie.
January 25th, 2022 at 6:06 PM ^
Peter Jackson's King Kong from 2005. Way over reliant on special effects.
January 25th, 2022 at 8:20 PM ^
My favorite actor is Ed Norton however he owes me $8 for his version of The Incredible Hulk.
January 26th, 2022 at 12:07 AM ^
Bonfire of the Vanities was a best selling book by Tom Wolfe. The movie came out in 1990 and bombed at the box office. Worst casting that I can think of. I'm a big fan of Tom Hanks but no way he should have played the lead. Brian De Palma was the director. Not sure who chose the cast.
January 26th, 2022 at 12:49 AM ^
De Palma is my bête noir. The worst!
January 26th, 2022 at 2:47 AM ^
My favorite science fiction book as a teenager was Battle Field Earth but the movie staring John Travolta was awful!
January 27th, 2022 at 11:14 AM ^
It's so bad, I think that even the Church of Scientology would agree with you.
January 26th, 2022 at 5:22 PM ^
While I don’t absolutely hate the movie, I thought it was one of the most overrated movies I’ve ever seen. That movie is The Departed. I had seen the movie that the departed was ripped off from, Infernal Affairs from Hong Kong, and that movie blew me away the first time I saw it. I went into the departed with high hopes and it did absolutely nothing for me. Nicholson’s performance was meh, and even though the rest of the cast was really good, the movie felt like a cheap retread of a great movie.